HMAS Quadrant

	HMS Quadrant in 1945
History
United Kingdom
Namesake	The navigational instrument
Builder	R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited
Laid down	24 September 1940
Launched	28 February 1942
Commissioned	26 November 1942
Decommissioned	Late 1945
Honours &; awards	Battle honours:; Arctic 1942–3; Okinawa 1945;
Fate	Transferred to RAN
Australia
Acquired	October 1945
Commissioned	18 October 1945
Decommissioned	20 June 1947
Recommissioned	16 July 1953
Decommissioned	16 August 1957
Reclassified	Anti-submarine frigate (1953)
Motto	"Seek and Smite"
Fate	Sold for scrap
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General characteristics (as launched)
Class & type	Q-class destroyer
Displacement	1,750 tons standard load; 2,388 tons full load;
Length	358 ft 3 in (109.19 m) length overall; 339 ft 6 in (103.48 m) between perpendiculars;
Beam	35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Propulsion	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 40,000 SHP, two propellers
Speed	31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
Complement	220
Armament	4 × single 4.7-inch QF Mark XI** guns; 1 × quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom"; 6 × single 20 mm Oerlikon guns; 2 × quadruple torpedo tube sets for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes; 4 × Depth charge throwers, up to 70 depth charges;
General characteristics (post conversion)
Type	Modified Type 15 frigate
Draught	15.5 ft (4.7 m)
Range	4,040 nautical miles (7,480 km; 4,650 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Armament	2 × 4-inch guns; 2 × 40 mm Bofors cannons; 2 × Squid anti-submarine mortars;

HMAS Quadrant (G11/D11/F01), named for the navigational instrument, was a Q-class destroyer operated by the Royal Navy as HMS Quadrant (G67/D17) during World War II, and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1945 to 1957. The ship was built during the early 1940s as one of the War Emergency Programme destroyers, and entered service in 1942.

During World War II, Quadrant served as a convoy escort in the Arctic, South Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, and operated with the British Eastern and British Pacific Fleets. At the war's end, the ship was decommissioned and transferred to the RAN, which operated her for two years before placing her in reserve. In 1950, the ship was docked for conversion into an anti-submarine frigate. Quadrant was recommissioned in 1953, and operated with the RAN until 1957, when she was paid off. The ship was sold for breaking in 1963.

History
HMS Quadrant in 1945
United Kingdom
Namesake	The navigational instrument
Builder	R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited
Laid down	24 September 1940
Launched	28 February 1942
Commissioned	26 November 1942
Decommissioned	Late 1945
Honours & awards	Battle honours: Arctic 1942–3 Okinawa 1945
Fate	Transferred to RAN
Australia
Acquired	October 1945
Commissioned	18 October 1945
Decommissioned	20 June 1947
Recommissioned	16 July 1953
Decommissioned	16 August 1957
Reclassified	Anti-submarine frigate (1953)
Motto	"Seek and Smite"
Fate	Sold for scrap
Badge
General characteristics (as launched)
Class & type	Q-class destroyer
Displacement	1,750 tons standard load 2,388 tons full load
Length	358 ft 3 in (109.19 m) length overall 339 ft 6 in (103.48 m) between perpendiculars
Beam	35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Propulsion	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 40,000 SHP, two propellers
Speed	31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
Complement	220
Armament	4 × single 4.7-inch QF Mark XI** guns 1 × quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom" 6 × single 20 mm Oerlikon guns 2 × quadruple torpedo tube sets for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes 4 × Depth charge throwers, up to 70 depth charges
General characteristics (post conversion)
Type	Modified Type 15 frigate
Draught	15.5 ft (4.7 m)
Range	4,040 nautical miles (7,480 km; 4,650 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Armament	2 × 4-inch guns 2 × 40 mm Bofors cannons 2 × Squid anti-submarine mortars